A state representative is asking President Donald Trump to rename Lake Erie to “Lake Pennsylvania.”
\n\nThe proposal from a Keystone State lawmaker is likely to draw fire from Native American tribes which strongly objected to the president’s renaming of Lake Ontario, also sourced from an Indian name. Lake Erie was named by a Native American tribe that once lived along its shores.
\n\nPennsylvania Rep. David Maloney, a Republican, says he’s preparing a resolution asking Trump, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and others on Capitol Hill to make the name change following the president’s renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America, Fox News reported Saturday.
\n\nLeaders of several Native American tribes in the region have argued that such proposals are in effect erasing the Native American origins of North America’s history.
\n\nOntario comes from an Indian word meaning “lake of shining waters,” while Erie comes from an Iroquois word for the Eastern Cougar. All four of the five other Great Lakes, with the exception of Lake Superior, which got its name from early French explorers, are sourced from Native American words.
\n\nMaloney, who represents a district of about 65,000 people in southeastern Pennsylvania which does not border the lake, argues the change…
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